Wednesday, March 21, 2012

LIGHTS IN THE DUSK (2006)

This is so far the most tragic
Kaurismaki melodrama that I ended up watching. His common traits of the
irreverent humor, sublime relations, a certain timelessness are absolutely
absent in this film. We meet a typical working class protagonist working as a
security guard and desiring for a company of dame in a bar. A femme fatale
enters to his innocent world and uses him and soon dumps him with a plot of
jewelry larceny that leads him towards one tragedy to another. The man is a
sentimental fool who even though knowing the truth about her true face at later
stage, keeps protecting her with accepting even the theft that hadn’t committed.
What is more tragic is that even after serving a sentence in prison, he bears
the bitter fruits from the sight of same dame.

Unlike his other films this is
out and out melodrama that leads towards tragedy. Compared to his other films,
so far this is the only film which fails to appeal or move me. I find it too weak in many forms- its
stretching melodrama that doesn’t make its mark like other films, there’re lot
of things that remained improbable and it left unexplained for the reasons best
known to Kaurismaki; even Kaurismaki’s otherwise wonderful use of soundtrack seems too average to encapsulate
the mood. I would rate it as only Kaurismaki film which either fail to impress
me or maybe I fail to appreciate it!

About Me

Born in 1977 and professionally lecturer,I love to explore life in all its intricacies around me. Reading-imagining-thinking, watching/analysing films, listening music are more than passion- obsession and compulsion for me to survive like air, water and food. Only like minded ones can understand some of my lunatic passion while reading this blog.I also love to meet people, hanging out different places, observe people while trying to adjust the struggling identities of being animal and human.